CreatEU – Entrepreneurship Up-skilling Education for Creatives Erasmus Project

Project Title

CreatEU – Entrepreneurship Up-skilling Education for Creatives

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

CreatEU aims to support the development of relevant and high-quality competences of professionals working in the Cultural and Creative Industries in order to enhance the sustainability and profitability of their activities, and thus further support the development of the CCI sector in Europe.

Based on the previous partners’ experience in working with the CCI sector, and directly with professionals from this sector, and artists and cultural operators, CreatEU team identified the following needs among the professionals from the CCI sector:

– more sustainable and financially stable cultural projects, activities and organizations run by these professionals;
– more profit-generating activities related to the cultural projects and activities, to increase the organizations and the sector sustainability;
– more involved and more stable teams in organizing the cultural projects or the activities; and more knowledge and competences for monitoring activities and evaluation of projects’ impact;
– more diverse and more stable funding sources for the cultural projects and activities;
– better marketing tools, for increasing the sales and the access on the international / EU market;
– better knowledge and competences for networking and for accessing the international market and develop more international cooperations.

Responding to these needs, CreatEU specific objectives are:
– identify the key competences the CCI professionals need in order to be able to structure their artistic and cultural activity in a more profitable, sustainable and structured way;
– develop innovative and specific tailored education tools to improve CCI professionals’ competences in the areas of entrepreneurship, management, financial / fundraising, marketing and networking, in order to increase the profitability and the sustainability of their activities and projects;
– increase project partners’ capacity, but also of other similar organizations, to serve the CCI professionals, one of their main working target groups, and diversify their educational services in the five areas mentioned above, through innovative educational tools for delivering high and relevant competences to their clients.

The CreatEU project brings valuable results for partner organizations, CCI professionals, artists and cultural operators, and other relevant stakeholders interested in the fields of CCI and education.
First, CreatEU will provide research-based knowledge on the key competences and key needs of the CCI professionals on entrepreneurship, management, fundraising, marketing and networking.
The research-based knowledge will support the development of the CreatEU Competence Framework for CCI professionals (IO1), which will be used in the development of the innovative educational tools for CCI professionals of the current project, but it can also be used by the partner organizations and other similar organizations (intermediary organizations / supporting organizations) in developing other relevant educational programs for the CCI sector.

Second, CreatEU will contribute to the development of the CCI professionals’ competences in the areas of entrepreneurship, management, financial / fundraising, marketing and networking, in order to increase the profitability and the sustainability of their activities and projects.
100 CCI professionals will directly benefit from the educational services & tools developed in the project, through their participation in the training activities (C2) or through accessing the online learning platform (IO4). Moreover, other CCI professionals, reach through relevant stakeholders that will adopt the educational services and tools developed in the project, will develop their competences in the areas mentioned above.

Finally, the partner organizations and other intermediary organizations / supporting organizations from CCI sector will increase their capacity in delivery relevant, high-quality and innovative educational services for CCI professionals. The partners will use the educational tools developed in the project – respectively CreateU Training for CCI professionals (IO2), CreateU Handbook for CCI professionals (IO3), and the CreateU online learning platform (IO4) – to deliver new services to the CCI professionals on areas such as entrepreneurship, management, fundraising, marketing and networking.

Thus, through the project will strongly contribute to the development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences of individuals, more specifically professionals from CCI sector, in order to foster their professional development, as well as the social impact of their work in the communities.

Thus, the project promotes educational services for CCI professionals, and also develops these new services based on research tools that allow for high-quality identification of the relevant competences and the necessary learning outcomes needed by the CCI professionals.

Project Website

https://createu.erasmus.site

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235045 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stiftelsen Drivhuset i Göteborg & Country: SE

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION KULTURANOVA UDRUZENJE
• MARKEUT SKILLS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• MOSAIC POLITISMOS & DIMIOURGIKOTITA
• CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE SCARL